It put out the clearest possible signal that the Confederacy was too weak to survive - far more so than Grant's slow progress at Petersburg.
By despoiling the farms and killing the livestock, Sherman struck a terrible blow at civilian morale, while also bringing the Confederate armies another step closer to starvation.
It did not really matter that Sherman had failed in his mission to destroy the Army of Tennessee. That army essentially had nowhere to go, and would soon be pulverised by George Thomas at Nashville.
Sherman's "March to the Sea"
To starve the Confederate troops in the field by destroying the farms and railroads.
because they all planned to come together in one so they could stop the south with the nonsense going on and so destroy all south's land.
· William Tecumseh Sherman- American Union army officer, his famous March to the Sea captured Atlanta, Georgia, making an important turning point in the war.
Sherman's March to the Sea
William T. Sherman
Sherman's "March to the Sea"
Sherman's destructive campaign through the south is called 'Sherman's March to the Sea'. It began on November 15, 1864, and lasted through December.
campaign of Atlanta and savannah.
The Civil War campaigns were the complex of military operations aiming to reach a strategic objective like: seizing a strategic point or city, destroying or capture an enemy's army. The most important of them were: the Peninsular Campaign; the Vicksburg Campaign; Lee's Maryland Campaign; Lee's Pennsylvania Campaign; the Chattanooga Campaign; the Overland Campaign; the Petersburg Campaign; the Atlanta Campaign; the March to the Sea Campaign; Hood's Tennessee Campaign; the Appomattox Campaign.
Sherman was a Union General, who had been promoted by Grant. His March to the Sea was a campaign of destruction that had the effect of starving the Confederate troops in the field.
Sherman's March to the Sea, more formally known as the Savannah Campaign, was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army.
The scorched earth strategy
East Sea Campaign happened on 29-04-09.
beause he wanted freedom between Indian and Britain.
George N. Barnard has written: 'Photographic views of Sherman's campaign' -- subject(s): Atlanta Campaign, 1864, Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863, Pictorial works, Sherman's March through the Carolinas, Sherman's March to the Sea
To starve the Confederate troops in the field by destroying the farms and railroads.